Endowments

Faculty chairs, professorships and fellowships build the reputation of the school and are evidence of strong commitment to academic achievement.

The University of Texas at Austin relies on its many alumni and friends to maintain its stature as a world-class university. Endowments established by friends of the school are invested in perpetuity to support the four fundamental building blocks of any great educational institution – faculty, students, programs, and facilities.

Often described as “gifts that keep on giving,” endowments leverage your gift across time and provide tangible, lasting benefits. The UT System invests your funds, using distributions from the investment for the purpose you wish to support – financial aid or merit awards for students, faculty support and research productivity, academic programs, and renovation and operation of facilities such as classrooms and centers of excellence for targeted curriculum and research initiatives. A portion of the total income and capital gains is reinvested each year, enabling the endowment to continue to grow and provide a predictable, stable stream of income over time.

For information on endowments, contact Dianne Bangle in the McCombs School at (512) 475-8177.

Areas for Support

Students: "Educating the Business Leaders of Tomorrow"

Currently the McCombs School is only able to provide scholarship packages to 2% of incoming freshmen. We have set a goal to establish a community of scholars built on a tiered “McCombs Scholars” program. Over the long-term, this ambitious initiative seeks to equip the McCombs School with 375 total scholarships (over 90 per class)—enough to ensure that the very brightest young minds in business have every reason to call the McCombs School home.

McCombs Scholars Program Levels

Forty Acres Scholarship: $500,000 Recipients receive four years of tuition and fees, housing and food, a living stipend, books, and summer enrichment activities including a service-learning experience, a study abroad placement, and internships.

McCombs Presidential Scholarship: $250,000Recipients receive four years of tuition and fees.

McCombs Dean's Scholarship: $125,000Recipients receive half of tuition and fees for four years.

Faculty: "Recruiting and Retaining Top Scholars"

Faculty chairs, professorships, and fellowships build the reputation of the school and are evidence of strong commitment to academic achievement. They foster a sense of tradition, and reward our best faculty with the tools to become more productive. In addition to providing year-round salary incentives for our most productive faculty, chairs and fellowships provide for support staff, research assistance, conference travel, and continuing education allowances.

To support the efforts of faculty and help us recruit, retain, and reward the faculty excellence that increases our standing and benefits our constituents, consider supporting one of the following options:

Endowed chairs are awarded to deans, department chairs, and superior faculty to enhance their scholarly efforts and research.

Endowed professorships are awarded to outstanding faculty members to reward and enhance scholarly efforts.

Faculty Excellence Funds are flexible funds dedicated to promoting faculty research, teaching, and continuing education. They can be used to respond quickly to sudden opportunities that may arise, and are a key asset in a rapidly-changing business world. In conjunction with visionary leadership, Excellence Funds ensure we can fulfill our mandate to take the McCombs School to the next level of greatness.

Program Excellence Endowments

Program Excellence Endowments are unrestricted endowments that support particular programs at the McCombs School.

Centers of Excellence

To complement, unify, and strengthen our many research centers, we are establishing two new centers focusing on our strengths in Entrepreneurship, Technology and Globalization. These Centers will attract great students and top scholars, foster relationship-based corporate partnerships, and produce research that garners national attention. The new centers are:

Facilities: "Technology-Driven Learning Centers"

How to Give to Facilities

Gifts to facilities ensure that the McCombs School of Business can offer a first-rate learning environment with access to the latest business technology for students, faculty, and researchers. Funds from these endowments support both the repair and maintenance of existing buildings, as well as infrastructure upgrades, new technology, and other building enhancements.

Naming Opportunities

Contributions to the facilities of the McCombs School may be honored by a naming designation of a specific space. Currently, naming opportunities exist in both the James J. and Miriam B. Mulva Hall which will house the Undergraduate School of Business, and Robert B. Rowling Hall which will house the Graduate School of Business after its completion in 2017.

For more information on McCombs School of Business Facility Endowed Excellence Funds and naming opportunities, contact Dianne Bangle at dianne.bangle@mccombs.utexas.edu or (512) 475-8177.